What is optimism? It is a belief that things in our past were good for us, even if that means they were hard and taught us lessons. It is also the belief that things will be better in the future.

Optimism breathes life into you each day

Pessimism drains you

Optimism helps you to take needed risks

Pessimism plays it safe and never accomplishes much

Optimism improves those around you

Pessimism drags them down

Optimism inspires people to great heights

Pessimism deflates people to new lows

Both self-fulfilling. If you are an optimist, you will generally find good things happen to you. As a pessimist, you will find yourself in the not-so-good situations more often than not. We can choose to look at the world and think the worst, or we can tell ourselves the good things about each situation. Taken from Chris Widener http://www.chriswidener.com/ .